The Word for today: Job 15:1 -- 17:16
mark this: 16:3--
Will your futile words of wind never end? (Amplified Version)
Shall vain words have an end? (King James Version)
Job tells his friends that their words of wind are futile, spoken in vain--they do not meet the need.
Are you having your spiritual needs met where you attend church? Many sermons in many churches are just vain words, words of wind--without substance.
Put your church, your pastor or priest, your Sunday School teacher, and this blogger to the test:
Do they teach the real Jesus, the Biblical Jesus?--
Is this the Jesus they're telling you about:
The Word of God--who became flesh to dwell amongst us, whose triumph over evil was promised in the Garden of Eden, pictured in the sacrificial system of the law of Moses, and clearly portrayed by the prophets.
Because the wages of sin had to be paid in kind--an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life (1)--He divested Himself of heaven's glory to become like one of us--born of woman, born under the law--so that he could take your place on a cross you'd earned.
Virgin born, the sinless son of God, He was baptized in identification with us as we are baptized in identification with Him. Coming up out of the water, driven by the Spirit, he withstood temptation by wielding the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, against the devil in the wilderness.
He performed miracles, personified the grace and truth of God, died at the hands of secular government and organized religion for the sins of the world, then rose from the dead in accordance with, and fulfillment of, scripture (2).
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and of His kingdom there will be no end.
If that describes the Jesus they're telling you about, then you are in a Bible-centered church where you will be able to grow closer to God.
If not, they are teaching you words of wind, about a "Jesus" who does not meet your needs, who is unable to save your soul.
Many things are said and written about "Jesus." But the only real description of Jesus is found in your Bible.
(1) Exodus 21:23-24; (2) 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
mark this: 16:3--
Will your futile words of wind never end? (Amplified Version)
Shall vain words have an end? (King James Version)
Job tells his friends that their words of wind are futile, spoken in vain--they do not meet the need.
Are you having your spiritual needs met where you attend church? Many sermons in many churches are just vain words, words of wind--without substance.
Put your church, your pastor or priest, your Sunday School teacher, and this blogger to the test:
Do they teach the real Jesus, the Biblical Jesus?--
Is this the Jesus they're telling you about:
The Word of God--who became flesh to dwell amongst us, whose triumph over evil was promised in the Garden of Eden, pictured in the sacrificial system of the law of Moses, and clearly portrayed by the prophets.
Because the wages of sin had to be paid in kind--an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life (1)--He divested Himself of heaven's glory to become like one of us--born of woman, born under the law--so that he could take your place on a cross you'd earned.
Virgin born, the sinless son of God, He was baptized in identification with us as we are baptized in identification with Him. Coming up out of the water, driven by the Spirit, he withstood temptation by wielding the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, against the devil in the wilderness.
He performed miracles, personified the grace and truth of God, died at the hands of secular government and organized religion for the sins of the world, then rose from the dead in accordance with, and fulfillment of, scripture (2).
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and of His kingdom there will be no end.
If that describes the Jesus they're telling you about, then you are in a Bible-centered church where you will be able to grow closer to God.
If not, they are teaching you words of wind, about a "Jesus" who does not meet your needs, who is unable to save your soul.
Many things are said and written about "Jesus." But the only real description of Jesus is found in your Bible.
(1) Exodus 21:23-24; (2) 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
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